OK, I agree, the second part of my post was unreasonable. I would still kick
in though, even from my lowly teacher's salary :)
My suggestion is we wait to hear Clint's and John's thoughts and also have
one or both of them request the entire inventory. Only they could tell us
if it was worthwhile.
Tom
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From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
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> From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:15:41 +0100
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> >On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:32:59 -0500
> >"Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>I'm actually quite serious. Perhaps they could keep track of our
> >>contributions and give back a small percent against future
> >>repairs.
> >
> >Well, *that* would probably be an administrative hell of
> >dimensions to manage. If I was to chip in it should solely be for
> >the fact that it would actually *increase* the possibility of
> >getting gear maintained in the future. I trust that Clint and
> >John spend their efforts better on repairing cameras than on
> >doing bookkeping....
>
> My thoughts exactly. It's worth $100 or so to me just to know the
> stuff's in good hands and that some part that's needed to fix
> something I broke may actually be available a year or two hence.
> Kind of like insurance: I don't expect a rebate if something
> happens and I need it.
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> >>has to be a way to make this work. There are roughly 600
> >>members here. If we each put in $30, that would be an $18000 bid.
> >
> >Well, I'd say we are about 500 members or so - there are dublettes
> >among the subscriptions and such :)
>
> Yeah, I'm one of the double-dippers, for reasons not worth
> explaining. Does that mean I have to chip in twice if we do this?
>
> Walt
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